A photograph taken by the Vietnamese-American photojournalist Nick Ut on June 8, 1972, showing children, including nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc, fleeing a napalm attack during the Vietnam War. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and became one of the defining images that shaped American public opinion against the war.
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc (Wikipedia)
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Phan Thị Kim Phúc (Vietnamese: [faːŋ tʰɪ̂ˀ kim fúk͡p̚]; born April 6, 1963), referred to informally as the girl in the picture and the napalm girl, is a South Vietnamese-born Canadian woman best known as the child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, titled The Terror of War, taken at Trảng Bàng during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972.
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